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MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest
Multiple readers have written to let us know that the MacBook Air was the first laptop to fall in the CanSecWest hacking contest. The successful hijacking took place only two minutes into the second day of the competition, after the rules had been relaxed to allow the visiting of websites and opening of emails. The TippingPoint blog reveals that the vulnerability was located within Safari, but they won't release specific details until Apple has had a chance to correct the problem. The winner, Charlie Miller, gets to keep the laptop and $10,000. We covered the contest last year, and the results were similar.
Owned indeed, but as a prize for the hack. Once again, the macbook air manages to get the attention making the other prizes nameless... Who wants to win a boring nameless computer... And with the downloaded filenames overflow recently introduced by "the lastest version of" Safari a couple of days ago it must have been a piece of cake.
Anyway, no one got interested in the rest and the guy went straight for the MBA...
Interesting? no... but does it blend?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...